MYRTACE^. 365 



Myrtus or Psidlum, Fruit baccate oblong, crowned with persistent 

 calyx ; ^^ seeds angular albuminous ; cotyledons of straight embryo 

 foliaceous flat ; radicle elongate." ^ A shrub ; leaves opposite cori- 

 aceous penninerved, nitid above, cano-tomentose below ; flowers ^ 

 pedunculate, few at summit of ramules, but " finally growing late- 

 rally from branch." {Brazil?) 



9 ? Marlieria Camb.* — Flowers nearly of Myrtus (or Myrcia) ; 

 receptacular tube produced beyond germen adnate within. Calyx 

 closed in bud or slightly open at apex and 4-5-lobed (Buhachia^), 

 oftener at anthesis disruptly 4-5-lobed. Petals 4, 5, or more rarely 

 0. Stamens oo , 00 -seriate ; anthers versatile. Germen 2-4-locular; 

 ovules in cells 2, ascending. Fruit, sometimes crowned with base of 

 calyx, etc., of Myrtus ; cotyledons of incurved embryo contortuplicate. 

 — Trees or shrubs; leaves and inflorescence of Myrcia.^ (Trop. and 

 suhtrop. America J) 



10. Calyptranthes Sw.^ — Flowers nearly of Myrtus (or Marlie- 

 ria) ; calyx turbinate, closed in bud, finally at anthesis, circumscissus 

 at base and calyptrately deciduous. Petals 1-5, small, very small 

 (or 0). Ovules in 2, 3 cells of germen 2 or more rarely oo (Mitran- 

 thes ^). Fruit baccate, seed, etc., of Myrtus ; cotyledons of incurved 

 embryo contortuplicate. — Trees and shrubs ; leaves and inflorescence 

 of Mijrcia. (Trop. America.^^) 



11. Campomanesia E. & Pav.^^ — Flowers nearly of Calyptran- 

 thes ; calyx 5-lobed or more rarely 4-6-lobed, sometimes patelliformly 

 dilated at base {Paivcea^^) ', lobes either conspicuous rather obtuse, or 



' Character of seed from Berg, loc. cit. Br. Jam. 239. — Zuzygium P. Br. loc. cit-. 240 (ex 



2 Rather large showy; stamens coloured. Endl.). — Chytralia Adans. Fam. des PI. ii. 80. — 



^ Spec. 1. F. Sellowiana Berg. — Orthostemon Calyptranthus 3. Bid, Sc. Nat.\i.21^{jcioi'Qh.). 



Sellowianus Berg. — 0. obovatus Berg, loc. cit, ^ Berg, Zinncea, xxvii. 316 ; xxix. 248; xxx. 



4 A. S.-H. Fl. Bras. Mer. ii. 373, t. 156.— 700. 



Spach, Suit, a Buffon, iv. 183.— Endl. Gen. n. i" Spec, ahout 70. A. S.-H. Fl. TJs. Bras. t. 



6318.— H. Bn. Payer Fam. Nat. 364.— B. H. 14; Fl. Bras. Mer. ii.t.ldb.—^^^-is.. Fl. Vit. 81. 



Gen. 716, n. 54. — Griseb. Fl. Brit. W.-Lid. 232.— Berg, Mart. 



* Berg, Linncea x^lyH. 11 ; xxix. 209 .—Ftiye- Fl. Bras. Mtjrt. 38, t. 16, 17; 354, t. 33 {Mi- 



niopsis Berg, Zinvcea xxvii. 80; xxix. 219; tranthes). — Walp. Bep. ii. 178; v. 752 ; Ann. 



xxx. 665 ; xxxi. 249. ii. 629. 



8 A genus between Myrcia and Calyptranthes, " Prodr. Fl. Per. 72, t. 13 ; Syst. 128.— DO. 



iiffering only in the calyx. Prodr. iii. 232. — Spach, Suit, a Buffon, iv. 151. 



7 Spec, about 35. Griseb. Fl. Brit. W.-Ind. —Endl. Gen. n. 6314.— B. H. Gen. 712, n. 43.— 

 233. — Berg, Mart. Fl. Bras. Myrt. 28, t. 13 Britoa Berg, Zinncea, xxvii. 435 ; xxix. 257. — 

 [RubacUa) ; 31, t. 14, 15; 143, t. 21, 22 {Euge- Zacerdoea Berg, Zinncea, xxx. m.—Abbevillea 

 liopsis). — Walp. Pep. ii. 177. Berg, Zinncea, xxvii. 425 ; xxix. 256 ; xxxi\ 



8 Prodr. 80; Fl. Ind. Occ. 917, t. 15.— DC. 260 (calyx generally larger and more expanded) . 

 Prodr. iii. 265.— Spach, Suit, d Buffon, iv. 168. ^2 Berg, Mart. Fl. Bras. Myrt. 614.— B, H. 



-Endl. Gen. n. 6319.— B. H. Gen. 717, n. 55.— Gen. 712, n. 44 (spec. 1, according to authors 

 i. Bx. Payer Fam. Nat. 367. — Chytraciilia P. cited generically distinct). 



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